Re: Anti Acta
Subject: Re: Anti Acta
From: "barri2009" <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 9/2/10, 21:32
To: "Anonymous" <anonymous@whyweprotest.net>
Reply-To:
barriticus@gmail.com

Yo-

Couple questions: are you going to be directly involved with this new group? And has anything happened with this over the past week? I've been out of internet range for a few days but will look into this more tomorrow and have also had a couple of my PM guys look into it.

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From: Anonymous <anonymous@whyweprotest.net>
Sender: greggatghc@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:57:46 -0400
To: Barrett Brown<barriticus@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Anti Acta

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Internet Freedom Movement Urges Public to Fight International Agreement, ACTA

Worldwide - August 27th, 2010 - The Internet Freedom Movement (IFM) has issued a video bulletin[1] exhorting users of the internet to defend their freedoms by any means necessary. This comes in the wake of recent news that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is due to be finalized by key world players this September.[2]

ACTA is seen by many as a hostile attempt to subordinate the free flow of information to corporate and government interests. In negotiating this agreement, the governments and power brokers of the world have chosen to ignore the voice of the people, opting instead to expand their authoritarian spheres of influence into the digital frontier.

Civil libertarians have criticized ACTA for its potential to infringe on personal freedoms. The agreement introduces internet censorship and opens the door to warrant-less searches of personal electronic devices. 

The IFM is a leaderless organization dedicated to preserving freedom, privacy and justice on the internet.


References:
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKZTVvgTjY
[2] Palmer, D. "Countries want anti-counterfeit trade deal in September". Reuters. August 20, 2010. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67J5A220100821 (accessed on August 24, 2010). 
[3] Saterical news site United States Congress has posted about this here:  http://www.unitedstatescongress.net/

For more information visit the IFM site at http://www.anti-acta.com

Contact us at:  anonymous@whyweprotest.net



On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd definitely be interested, will talk to new Rolling Stone editor and some others and see if they'd be interested in a story, and at the very least I can get a HuffPO piece up. I'd also want quotes from you; can you start me out by writing out a couple of paragraphs about why you've chosen to pursue this particular issue?


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Anonymous <anonymous@whyweprotest.net> wrote:
Just wanted to give you a heads up.  There are multiple groups of people working on various anti-acta movements.  One of them has a website up like everyone else, but is planning to mirror some of what chanology did.

I offered to get their press release out to the press for them and make sure some people watched the video when it goes up.  That should be within the next couple days.

If all goes well and people are really interested and you or anyone else ends up wanting to talk to them I can get you direct contact with the right people.  If it goes quick and you want a first interview sort of thing and can get it up onto huffpo or anywhere else good that would be awesome.





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Barrett Brown
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